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From: me@anywhere.EBay.Sun.COM (Wayne Thompson)
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Subject: Re: Unix Configure script
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Date: 11 Apr 91 14:13:51 GMT
References: <1991Apr10.214750.19556@news.iastate.edu>
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Try lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov (Larry Wall). He's REAL busy, so be patient.

Wayne

In article <1991Apr10.214750.19556@news.iastate.edu>, john@iastate.edu (Hascall John Paul) writes:
|> 
|>    Once upon a time, I installed a package I received from the net and it
|> had this terribly nifty script (named "Configure" as I recall) which
|> looked around, and asked several questions, and learned all sorts of things
|> about the system it was running on (as a prelude to installing whatever
|> I was installing).
|> 
|>    Does anyone know where I can find this wonderful thing?
|> 
|> Many thanks,
|> John (john@iastate.edu)
|> --
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